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Dangers Of Childhood Obesity

Dr. Travis Stork warns that some children suffering from obesity may have clogged arteries that...
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Fast Food Ads Contribute to Childhood Obesity

Fast Food Ads Contribute to Childhood Obesity

It is a widely known fact that children mimic what they see from the earliest of ages. The first...
» read full story November 21st, 2008 - 21:54
TV Ads for Fast Food Contribute To Childhood Obesity

TV Ads for Fast Food Contribute To Childhood Obesity

Banning fast food ads from children’s television programs would help to cull the number of...
» read full story November 21st, 2008 - 14:39
Censoring Fast-Food TV Ads Might Lower Childhood Obesity Rates

Censoring Fast-Food TV Ads Might Lower Childhood Obesity Rates

Banning fast-food advertising could lead to a decrease in the number of overweight and obese...
» read full story November 20th, 2008 - 14:30
High Vitamin D Levels Protect Children from Rickets and Other Diseases

High Vitamin D Levels Protect Children from Rickets and Other Diseases

Millions of children will need to take their vitamin D supplements each day to meet the new...
» read full story October 16th, 2008 - 14:00
American Academy Of Pediatrics Urges Doubling Vitamin D For Children

American Academy Of Pediatrics Urges Doubling Vitamin D For Children

The deficiency of vitamin D during childhood and adolescence has outcomes later in life like the...
» read full story October 14th, 2008 - 11:00
National Children’s Study, Observing Kids Until They’re 21

National Children’s Study, Observing Kids Until They’re 21

The National Children’s Study is a project authorized by Congress and which is conducted by several...
» read full story October 05th, 2008 - 21:08
National Children's Health Study Aims to Find Ways to Lower the Cost of Health Care

National Children's Health Study Aims to Find Ways to Lower the Cost of Health Care

The National Children’s Study, the largest nationwide study of the effects of genes and the...
» read full story October 05th, 2008 - 14:30
$57 Million For 21-Year Human Health Study

$57 Million For 21-Year Human Health Study

The National Institutes of Health offers the State of Michigan $57 million to expand its task...
» read full story October 04th, 2008 - 18:15
The Largest Human Health Study To Be Launched In The United States

The Largest Human Health Study To Be Launched In The United States

The largest human health study ever conducted in the United States is about to be launched. The...
» read full story October 04th, 2008 - 14:40
The Most Amazing Study Ever Announced by NIH

The Most Amazing Study Ever Announced by NIH

U.S. health officials announced on Friday that the largest study of U.S. children ever performed...
» read full story October 03rd, 2008 - 22:37
Brain Chemical, Missing Genes Associated with Obesity, Study Shows

Brain Chemical, Missing Genes Associated with Obesity, Study Shows

If the rate of obesity and overweight continues to rise, 75 percent of adults and nearly 24...
» read full story August 28th, 2008 - 14:33
Ear Infections Could Lead to Childhood Obesity

Ear Infections Could Lead to Childhood Obesity

Frequent ear infections or tonsil trouble may raise your child’s risk of being obese according to...
» read full story August 15th, 2008 - 14:35
Lower Fertility In Men Linked To Being Obese, Diabetic

Lower Fertility In Men Linked To Being Obese, Diabetic

It appears that not only the mother’s weight plays an important role in conceiving, but the...
» read full story July 10th, 2008 - 10:56
AAP Makes Controversial Recommendations for Statin Use in Kids

AAP Makes Controversial Recommendations for Statin Use in Kids

The American Academy of Pediatrics has changed its guidelines, recommending testing of overweight...
» read full story July 08th, 2008 - 17:55
The American Academy of Pediatrics Recommends Cholesterol Drugs for Kids

The American Academy of Pediatrics Recommends Cholesterol Drugs for Kids

The American Academy of Pediatrics is seeking to change some of its recommendations regarding...
» read full story July 07th, 2008 - 12:35
Weight Loss Surgery Found to Lower Cancer Risk

Weight Loss Surgery Found to Lower Cancer Risk

Weight loss surgery was found by a recent study to lower the risk of developing cancer for people...
» read full story June 19th, 2008 - 22:52
Child Obesity May Level Off, but That's No Good News

Child Obesity May Level Off, but That's No Good News

Rates of childhood obesity in the U.S. appear to have leveled off after a 25-year increase, results...
» read full story May 30th, 2008 - 21:29
CDC: Childhood Obesity Rates Going Steady First Time in 25 Years

CDC: Childhood Obesity Rates Going Steady First Time in 25 Years

It seems like the battle against excessive weight has won ground lately, as rates of childhood...
» read full story May 28th, 2008 - 11:26
Lack of Sleep May Expose Infants to Obesity

Lack of Sleep May Expose Infants to Obesity

Mothers should be very careful at the amount of sleep their newborn babies are getting, according...
» read full story April 08th, 2008 - 11:27
Kids with Sedentary Life Show Early Signs of Metabolic Syndrome

Kids with Sedentary Life Show Early Signs of Metabolic Syndrome

It’s no longer a secret that a sedentary life can’t do you any better. New research comes to...
» read full story April 05th, 2008 - 09:48
Report: Obese Pregnant Women Need More Medical Attention

Report: Obese Pregnant Women Need More Medical Attention

Gaining too much weight during pregnancy is linked to greater use of health care services and...
» read full story April 04th, 2008 - 12:22
ENBREL Effective in Treating Psoriasis in Children as Well

ENBREL Effective in Treating Psoriasis in Children as Well

Amgen, a Thousand Oaks, Calif., biotechnology company and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, a division of...
» read full story January 17th, 2008 - 13:36
Childhood Obesity Linked to Heart Disease in Adult Life

Childhood Obesity Linked to Heart Disease in Adult Life

The number of children having problems with their weight will grow considerably in the years to...
» read full story December 11th, 2007 - 16:28
Overweight Children More Likely to Develop Heart Disease

Overweight Children More Likely to Develop Heart Disease

The number of children having problems with their weight will grow considerably in the years to...
» read full story December 06th, 2007 - 12:54
Lack of Sleep Leads to Childhood Obesity

Lack of Sleep Leads to Childhood Obesity

A recent study made by researchers at the University of Michigan’s Center for Human Growth and...
» read full story November 05th, 2007 - 19:50
Study: Diet Foods Make Children Prone To Become Obese Later

Study: Diet Foods Make Children Prone To Become Obese Later

A recent study conducted at University of Alberta reveals that children that consume diet food and...
» read full story August 09th, 2007 - 17:07
Friend or Foe?

Friend or Foe?

A new study has shown that while friends can sometimes be priceless when it comes to criticizing...
» read full story July 26th, 2007 - 12:20
Kids Eat Much More After Watching Food Commercials

Kids Eat Much More After Watching Food Commercials

Researchers from the University of Liverpool say that obese and overweight children consume 100%...
» read full story April 26th, 2007 - 16:38
Obese as a toddller, early puberty as a young girl

Obese as a toddller, early puberty as a young girl

American researchers have discovered a possible connection between obesity in young girls and an...
» read full story March 06th, 2007 - 12:17
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Technology

Media, Our Children’s Parent?

The U.S. National Institutes of Health, Yale University and the California Pacific Medical Center...
» read full story December 02nd, 2008 - 19:57
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Science

Study Shows Parents Must Control Kids' Media Use

Study Shows Parents Must Control Kids' Media Use

A recent study says that the TV, the Internet and other types of media really harm children....
» read full story December 02nd, 2008 - 14:54
By 2015, 75% of Americans Could Be Fat

By 2015, 75% of Americans Could Be Fat

A new study from John Hopkins University reveals that if Americans continue with their bad habits...
» read full story July 22nd, 2007 - 18:38
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Specials

Report Correlates Heavy Media Use to Serious Health Problems in Kids

Report Correlates Heavy Media Use to Serious Health Problems in Kids

Television, music, movies and other media appear to significantly increase obesity rates, tobacco...
» read full story December 03rd, 2008 - 14:37
Researchers Link TV Ads With Childhood Obesity

Researchers Link TV Ads With Childhood Obesity

A new study found a connection between fast-food television advertisements and childhood...
» read full story November 21st, 2008 - 20:00
Couch Potatoes Have Now Something to Fear: Ban on Fast Food Adverts

Couch Potatoes Have Now Something to Fear: Ban on Fast Food Adverts

A new study demonstrates that banning fast food advertisements from children’s television programs...
» read full story November 21st, 2008 - 16:00
Obese Children Have Middle-Aged Arteries, a Sign of Future Heart Disease

Obese Children Have Middle-Aged Arteries, a Sign of Future Heart Disease

Obesity in children is a growing problem nowadays. Childhood obesity is considered an epidemic in...
» read full story November 14th, 2008 - 17:20
Arteries of Most Obese Kids – As Thick and Stiff as Middle-Aged Adults’

Arteries of Most Obese Kids – As Thick and Stiff as Middle-Aged Adults’

Hundreds of previous studies have shown that obesity comes with a number of risks, such as heart...
» read full story November 12th, 2008 - 14:07
Book’s Overweight Character “Teaches” Girls to Lose Weight

Book’s Overweight Character “Teaches” Girls to Lose Weight

As obesity increasingly becomes a global health concern, researchers try to figure out what we can...
» read full story October 06th, 2008 - 14:41
Safety of Statin Use for Children Questioned

Safety of Statin Use for Children Questioned

The American Academy of Pediatrics’ decision to change its guidelines regarding children and...
» read full story July 09th, 2008 - 15:13
8-Years-Olds to Get Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs If Obese

8-Years-Olds to Get Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs If Obese

Kids as young as 8 are recommended cholesterol-lowering drugs if diet alone fails to work in order...
» read full story July 08th, 2008 - 10:42
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People

‘Evil’ TV Ads Teach Kids Junk

‘Evil’ TV Ads Teach Kids Junk

American children are practically being brainwashed by the overwhelming number of TV ads for sweets...
» read full story March 29th, 2007 - 16:20
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